The problem of public transport in the city of Encarnación dates back several years, despite constant attempts to improve the service, currently there is no progress in this regard. The constant complaints from the users refer to the infrequency, lateness and poor condition of the buses. Due to the problems that the public transport system of the city currently has, citizen participation becomes totally necessary and of great importance as a means of governance aimed at improving the public transport system of the city. For all of the above, this research focused on analyzing the importance of citizen participation as a means of governance for the quality of the public transport service in the city of Encarnación, as well as specific objectives: Define the concept of citizen participation from the public management perspective; Describe the operation and organizational composition of the public transport system of the city of Encarnación; Identify the mechanisms and spaces for citizen participation in the public transport system of the city of Encarnación. Regarding the methodology used, it was a mixed or qualitative-quantitative investigation. For this, the survey was used, based on a non-probabilistic sample of 100 public transport users, as well as the interview, already with 2 public transport businessmen in the city of Encarnación, being a non-probabilistic sample for convenience. The result of this investigation was that citizen participation is a means of direct involvement aimed at generating quality public services, since it involves and commits the population in planning, decision-making, cost control and prevention of the corruption.

« -Fátima Centurión Irigoitia; -Dolores Sánchez-Aguilera; -Ever Lezcano González; « 
« -Fátima Centurión Irigoitia; Universidad Nacional de Itapúa. -Dolores Sánchez-Aguilera; Universidad de Barcelona. -Ever Lezcano González; Universidad de Barcelona. »

 
ID Abstract: 968

Nowadays the engines of national economies are urban economies whose development is increasingly determined by creative economy, digital solutions, and innovation. In the development of cities (especially of smart cities), digital information and communication technologies have a decisive role. The basic question of the presentation to be answered is to what extent do digitalization and smart solutions contribute to increasing the competitiveness of Hungarian cities and what geographical patterns can be drawn up? Using these big data sets, we will explore the geographical characteristics and the territorial patterns of digitalization, including cell phone usage, and explore the characteristics of mobile usage flow. In so doing, we determine digital nodes (key mobility patterns and flows) based on mobile cell information and we explore the spatial and social characteristics of mobile phone usage. We will attempt to highlight the city network nodes and will provide a ranking list for cities. Using geocoded inbound and outbound call records we outline the connectedness of geographical units. Using the large scale telecommunication data we will define the innovation and knowledge transfer network position of Hungarian towns based on their centrality/periphery. In addition, the database will allow us to explore the demographic and technological conditions of mobile usage, whereby we will draw the social and territorial characteristics of mobile usage of the X, Y and Z generations.

Tamás Egedy
Budapest Business School – University of Applied Sciences; Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences

 
ID Abstract: 134

We pretend that discussing governance of territorial mobilities needs to highlight the local forms of governance. Even if the national states still claim authority over the immigration issues through visas and citizenship policies, cities are mostly the places where migrants and refugees live and develop a sense of belonging

. Consequently we consider that in terms of migrant inclusion, we need to give a special focus on local forms of governance of mobilities such as these solidarity cities called in the US and Canada “sanctuary cities” and in Europe “cities of refuge”. A common urban approach describes them as local initiatives, policies and practices towards accommodating and protecting undocumented migrants and refugees. Also, what commonly highlights and regroups solidarity cities are their same discourses and practices to response to national immigration exclusive policies and consequently their same fight for “elevating the urban as the scale at which membership is enacted” (Bauder, 2017). Precisely, the recent crisis context of Covid-19 reflected the paper of these local governance of territorial mobilities that worked on facilitating the access to basic necessities such as sanitarian protection, healthcare services and economical support that other policy-makers might have left aside towards undocumented migrants. In brief, this presentation provides a comprehensive understanding of the role of local governance in the recent pandemic and the importance of discussing urban scale jurisdiction when we think about migratory policies and especially for the case of undocumented immigration.

Line Crettex (Ph. D.)
« – (Graduated recently from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico). »

 
ID Abstract: 415